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Prom Press Department
Korean Copaissiori
Continental Trust Bldg.,
Washington, I). C*
Zarchl^^ 1920-
(For Immediate Release)
Korean Inventions and Discoveries -
A great many articles have appeared in the American
Press respecting Korean inventiveness and resourcefulness . They only-
scratch the surface- Reference is made extensively to the fact that
Korea used iron clads against the Japanese as early as 1?97> and that
they first used cast metal type.
Nothing has been said and perhaps is not generally
• known as to their discovery of gunpowder in 200 B. C, fourteen centuries before the German monk, who is ordinarily credited with the
discovery, gave out his formula.
The astronomers of Silla, one of the ancient provinces of Korea, thought out the operations of the planetary system
and its working to such an extent that they were able to predict
eclipses with certainty, centuries before present day scientists
gave credit for those discoveries, and it was this same guild that
gave the world the magnetic needle and the mariner*s compass. One
of their old observatory towers can still be seen in lower Korea.
Many of the industrial arts of the present day are
based on Korean discoveries. A Korean invented the potterfs wheel,
and Korean potters discovered the art of under glazing. The present
Mikado of Japan drinks his tea from the first examples of this art.
Count Okuma, the noted Japanese statesman, in his
work gives credit to Koreans for the introduction into Japan of the
art of weaving silk* and carpentry, and architecture. He refers
to the fact that Koreans brought into Japan the first musical in-
rl-Tir'-^ovit" . which included a fi&y^-n o-?-----—,-,i instrjLini0nt-j raoh string
attuned to one of the seven musical notes of the scale *that is the
present day base for all music. He speaks, also, of the flute and
the drum and other like instruments u^ed by Koreans* A
There were brass and bronze f ouncii ies in Korea at
the beginning of the Christian era, Cne of their examples is still
in Korea, the Great Bell 0;' Silla: the same size and dimension as
3"*r *r*

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Prom Press Department
Korean Copaissiori
Continental Trust Bldg.,
Washington, I). C*
Zarchl^^ 1920-
(For Immediate Release)
Korean Inventions and Discoveries -
A great many articles have appeared in the American
Press respecting Korean inventiveness and resourcefulness . They only-
scratch the surface- Reference is made extensively to the fact that
Korea used iron clads against the Japanese as early as 1?97> and that
they first used cast metal type.
Nothing has been said and perhaps is not generally
• known as to their discovery of gunpowder in 200 B. C, fourteen centuries before the German monk, who is ordinarily credited with the
discovery, gave out his formula.
The astronomers of Silla, one of the ancient provinces of Korea, thought out the operations of the planetary system
and its working to such an extent that they were able to predict
eclipses with certainty, centuries before present day scientists
gave credit for those discoveries, and it was this same guild that
gave the world the magnetic needle and the mariner*s compass. One
of their old observatory towers can still be seen in lower Korea.
Many of the industrial arts of the present day are
based on Korean discoveries. A Korean invented the potterfs wheel,
and Korean potters discovered the art of under glazing. The present
Mikado of Japan drinks his tea from the first examples of this art.
Count Okuma, the noted Japanese statesman, in his
work gives credit to Koreans for the introduction into Japan of the
art of weaving silk* and carpentry, and architecture. He refers
to the fact that Koreans brought into Japan the first musical in-
rl-Tir'-^ovit" . which included a fi&y^-n o-?-----—,-,i instrjLini0nt-j raoh string
attuned to one of the seven musical notes of the scale *that is the
present day base for all music. He speaks, also, of the flute and
the drum and other like instruments u^ed by Koreans* A
There were brass and bronze f ouncii ies in Korea at
the beginning of the Christian era, Cne of their examples is still
in Korea, the Great Bell 0;' Silla: the same size and dimension as
3"*r *r*